Corynebacterium ulcerans in an Immunocompromised Patient with Diphtheria and Her Dog

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Lartigue, Marie-Frédérique | Monnet, Xavier | Le Fleche-Mateos, Anne | Grimont, Patrick, a D | Benet, Jean-Jacques | Durrbach, Antoine | Fabre, Monique | Nordmann, Patrice

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Corynebacterium ulcerans causes zoonotic infections, such as diphtheria and extrapharyngeal infections. We report here the first case of a diphtheria-like illness caused by C. ulcerans in France and transmitted likely by a dog to an immunocompromised woman.

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